Pop Star Toyah

‘People expect me to be tall after seeing me with that big hair, the padded shoulders and high heels. I’m only 5ft 1in’ DEFINITE also like to visit Newfoundland, as I’ve never been. Dinner would be a lobster salad by Sydney Harbour. I don’t usu- ally drink, but I’d have a glass of Eng- lish champagne, then some green tea. ARTICLE The happiest moment you will cherish forever… Walking with my mother in a We ask a celebrity a set of devilishly forest covered in snow at Lickey Hills probing questions – and only accept near Birmingham when I was eight. At the time I was into the Narnia stories, THE definitive answer. This week it’s so the atmosphere resonated deeply. Mum died in 2011 of cancer, aged 81. actress and singer Toyah Willcox’s turn The saddest time that shook your The prized possession you value The temptation you wish you could world… Apart from the deaths of my above all others… My notebooks. I resist… I have a habit of needing cake parents, it was the bad reviews in think very fast and visually and I or chocolate when I get an energy dip 2003 of the stage musical Calamity have to write down an idea right away around 4pm. I wish I could stop. Jane I was in. It had been a sell-out in or it will be lost forever. the provinces so no one could under- The person who has influenced stand it. It should have run and run The biggest regret you wish you could William Blake. you most… when we got to the West End, but amend… Not learning the piano and I first saw his drawings closed after three months. guitar when I was really young. The when I was 12 and I The unlikely interest that The event that altered the course of height of a child’s learning is before love that he was driven engages your curiosity… your life and character… The day in The philosophy that underpins your ten, so I missed out. to live a creative life. Designing jewellery and col- 1965 when my mother, Barbara, went life... Be positive and see the good in things, and good things will happen. The book that holds an everlasting He inspired me to express lecting semi-precious stones into labour when we were stuck in resonance… Keith Richards’ autobi- my own creativity. like topaz and aquamarine. traffic on the M5. I was seven and my The order of service at your funeral… I ography Life. I love how he’s lived The figure from history for The treasured item you lost dad told my sister Nicola and I to look want a state funeral with bells ringing life to the full on his own terms. whom you’d most like to buy a pie and wish you could have out the window, but I remember the across the land! Then I’d love the con- car seat being drenched in blood. The gregation to do the hokey cokey and The priority activity if you were the and a pint… Hildegard of Bingen, the again… A tiny crystal heart baby died and the experience gave my for can-can girls to dance down the Invisible Woman for a day… I’d 12th-century Benedictine abbess. my father Beric gave me a few months sister and me a phobia of childbirth. aisle. I’ve already bought the plot in steal the fat cats’ bonuses and She was a writer, composer, before he died in 2009, aged 88, after a Worcestershire next to my parents. pay off all student loans. philosopher and Christian stroke. I kept it in my purse, but it fell The crime you would commit knowing mystic. I’d like to know how out at a petrol station. I really miss it. The way you want to be remem- The pet hate that makes your you could get away with it… I’d take she did the things she did at a down the mobile phone masts around bered… She kept vital to the end. hackles rise... Remote controls. The unending quest that drives you time when men dominated. domestic housing. I’m sure they have a Our TV needs four and I’m on… To remain creative in everything The Plug… Toyah features in The 80s bad effect on the human body. dyslexic, so most of the The piece of wisdom you I do, from cooking to performing. Invasion Tour with Paul Young and would pass on to a time I haven’t a clue The poem that touches your soul… The way you would spend your fantasy China Crisis from 2-19 March. For child… Live to live. n what’s happening. Somewhere Between Heaven And 24 hours, with no travel restrictions... tickets visit tdpromo.com. Don’t live to die. And I’d spend the day with my husband, the As told to Rob McGibbon The film you can never stop learning. Woolworths by Brian Patten. It’s very watch time and simple yet lyrical and full of emotion. guitarist Robert Fripp. We’d take a private jet to my time again… The song that The misapprehension about yourself favourite city, Seattle, and Alien. I saw it means most to you wish you could erase… That I’m pick up our friend, the when it came out you… D a v i d tall. People expect me to be after see- musician Bill Rieflin. We’d in 1979 and it Bowie’s Life On ing me with big hair, padded shoulders, have a masterclass in glass- frightened the Mars. I fell in high-heeled boots and a big voice. But blowing from Dale Chi- life out of me. love when I first saw him on TV when I I’m only 5ft 1in, so people always say, huly, who’s incredible, was 12. I sang it at my “I thought you’d be taller!” then a crazy long lunch at first professional acting The unfulfilled ambition that contin- The Herbfarm outside the Right: David Bowie. city. We’d zip to Alaska to Above right: cake. Far audition aged 17 and I ues to haunt you… To play a psycho right: the Alaskan got the job, so I associ- alien baddie in a Star Wars movie. stand in the wilderness wilderness ate it with success. Oh, and to live till I’m 110. and hear true silence. I’d NEXT WEEK PS... l Christopher Eccleston on the Max Irons takes the lead in 1930s romantic drama Bitter Harvest heartache of his father’s S E dementia l How to perk UR T A E – in cinemas Friday. Black & White Night 30, a Roy Orbison X F up pancakes on Tuesday E Y, R Y, M live album, is out the same day. And Gary Barlow’s musical l Monty Don on the S: ALA ph wonder of winter irises OGRA The Girls opens at London’s Phoenix Theatre on Tuesday T l Britain’s best TV guide O ph PLEASE RECYCLE Our newspapers, magazines DAILY MAIL WEEKEND IS PUBLIShed BY ASSOciAted NewSPApeRS Ltd. PRinted BY PRinOviS UK Ltd, 4 DAKOTA DRive, LiveRPOOL L24 8RJ. ReGISteRed AS A newSPApeR AT the POST OFFice. © ASSOciAted NewSPApeRS Limited 2017. 86 weekend and polythene wrapping are 100% recyclable..

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